Sabbath Day Holy

Where to start? First of all, it's Valerie. The weekend in Driggs was fun, but I knew before we even left that the RIGHT thing to do was to pack up and come home Sat. night so we could go to church. Well, to say the least, we were exhausted after hiking all day Saturday and tucked the kids in for an early bed. We sluffed church and Macie burned her legs. Lesson learned. The burns didn't look too bad on Sunday. I called the pediatrician; the nurse told me to put neosporin on them and keep them covered, so I did. Macie cried when it happened, took a nap, and seemed completely fine when she woke up. When we got home I changed her dressings and saw that the skin had turned black. I looked up burns on the internet to see that the worst possible burns are "painless" due to nerve damage. I immediately freaked out since Macie showed no signs of pain. We went to the ER since it was now 8:05 and, of course, the instacares all closed at 8. I was a wreck and crying, but Macie was on cloud nine. She was jumping all over the chairs, (sliding down them,which made me cringe every time knowing that that poor burned skin was underneath) and having a great time. A nurse informed us that there were 55 patients waiting. After I calmed down and let Macie play in the ER for two hours, we decided she could obviously wait till the next day to see her pediatrician. the pediatrician sent us to the wound/burn center at the hospital. The Dr. said it was 2nd and 3rd degree with some exposed nerves. She just sat there the whole time and let him do whatever he wanted. He was flabbergasted that Macie didn't cry and scream when he removed the dressings and had to pull some of the dead skin off. He made sure she still had feeling by poking her everywhere, and she eventually pulled her leg back. He said she was the toughest patient he'd ever had. (When I have had to call back and ask questions I explain who I am and they say, "Oh, that tough little girl with the burned legs?") Anyway, she is fine. Yesterday they said by next week the new skin should be growing! I did, however, let her get wet today at the splash park, so hopefully that doesn't slow things down. I couldn't say no to this special event...she loved it! Apparently I didn't learn my lesson as Riley got herself a pretty good bumburn. I take no responsibility for this. I tried my hardest to apply sunscreen to her legs, but she wasn't about to have it. She has a million scratches on her legs (she always tries to slide during her t-ball games) and says that the sunscreen stings too bad.
So there is our week in review. Charlotte had her 4 month check-up today. She is in the 50th percentile for height and weight and her head is in the 90th. We are so proud :)

Splash Park

Make a Smilebox scrapbook

Weekend in Driggs

Make a Smilebox photobook

Father's Day Miracle

We witnessed a Father's Day Miracle yesterday as Riley learned how to ride her bike without training wheels (Inspired by Grandpa’s new bike – Big Brown!). We didn't have our camera at the time, but caught this action when we went for a walk around the neighborhood tonight for FHE.

Teton Dam 5K Race

My sister Heidi and I ran in the Teton Dam 5K race in Rexburg this morning. It was a perfect morning for a run. My sister was such a trooper, I was so proud of her. This was her first race and she did a great job! The course was pretty tough - straight up hill for the first mile, down and up for the second mile and then finishing straight down hill for the last leg, a little over a mile.

Before the race started - 8:15am, about 50 degrees

Despite falling off a chair while painting on Wednesday and not being able to walk for the last three days, I was feeling a little better this morning and really wanted to run in the race with Heidi. Nothing a little BioFreeze (from the schwag bag) couldn't temporarily fix! :) I ended up placing 3rd in my age/gender division, and 30th overall. Not too bad for running with a beat up leg!

My biggest fans - getting up early to come and cheer me on!
Plus they really don't have a choice.

Feral Child

I am trying to upload a video of this wild thing on the Knudson Blog ....

Fall

I was painting a shelf in Zack's room today and was just finishing up when I must have tipped on the chair I was standing on and fell to the ground. I am lucky I didn't get hurt worse than I did. I had 2 chairs, a stool and the crib and dresser all crammed in Zack's little room. I think my leg must have hit the chair when I fell and I pushed the crib which slammed into the closet making a huge bang, and there I lay on my back on the floor, with the wind knocked out of me and my leg throbbing so hard I didn't think I could get up. While I was laying there on my back trying to figure out what happened I noticed the chocolate brown paint I had been holding splattered everywhere! I finally got up and started to clean the paint off the carpet because I knew Rich would not be to happy about that. After a failed attempt I hobbled out to the couch and laid there in pain. It is feeling a little better now, but I still can't walk very good. I hobble around everywhere and getting up and down kills. I hope it is better by Saturday - I signed up and paid for a 5K race in Rexburg this Saturday that I would hate to miss.

4th of July

I changed the background to a patriotic theme for the upcoming holiday. I hope no one minds. We are still unsure if Rich will be able to participate in the basketball tournament this year because we are in charge of our ward's 4th of July breakfast and flag raising and there are no other people on our committee that we can pass this off on because there are no people on our committee right now! Maybe they will call some new people in the next week or two - but I doubt it.

Kade's First Tee ball game

Kade had his first tee ball game yesterday. We have them every Mon. & Wed. for the next 6 weeks. As you can tell by the pictures he gets bored pretty easily, but that is understandable, it really is pretty boring and he only got to hit the ball once. At one point he just wanted to go play on the playground with Ty, but I told him he only got a team snack if he stayed with the team and he quickly came back. He did try to slide into third when he was running the bases - Rich saw him - I was doing something with Zack and missed it.

There are a couple more pictures on our family blog. He plays again on Wednesday at 9:45am at the fields on Rollandet.

Daniel's Blessing

Daniel was also blessed on Sunday. Here are some photos of the event, plus one with Michael in it (not taken on blessing day).

Charlotte's Blessing and more...

Charlotte's blessing went well on Sunday. We avoided any near drops (Riley's Blessing) and it was great to have everyone here for the weekend. I'm waiting to get the good pictures from my brother so these will have to suffice in the meantime.

Spelling Bee Champ 2008

I don't know if any of you watched this the other night - I turned to it on the t.v. right when this happened. It is pretty funny!

I don't know how to post the video - but here is the link!

http://larrybrownsports.com/everything-else/spelling-bee-numbnuts/